Arthur Koestler CBE (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Jewish-Hungarian polymath author who became a naturalized British subject. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists. He wrote numerous books, of which the most famous is the novel Darkness at Noon about the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, an indictment of Stalinism.
Novels
The Gladiators (1939)
Darkness At Noon (1940)
Arrival and Departure (1943)
Twilight Bar (1945)
Thieves in the Night (1946)
The Challenge of Out Time (1948)
The Age of Longing (1951)
The Invisible Writing (1954)
The Lotus and the Robot (1960)
Control of the Mind (1961)
Hanged By the Neck (1961)
Studies in Psychology (1965)
Beyond Reductionsm (1969)
The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971)
The Call Girls (1972)
Lion and the Ostrich (1973)
The Heel of Achilles (1974)
Janus - A Summing Up (1978)
Stranger in the Square (1980)
Bricks to Babel (1980)
Darkness At Noon (1940)
Arrival and Departure (1943)
Twilight Bar (1945)
Thieves in the Night (1946)
The Challenge of Out Time (1948)
The Age of Longing (1951)
The Invisible Writing (1954)
The Lotus and the Robot (1960)
Control of the Mind (1961)
Hanged By the Neck (1961)
Studies in Psychology (1965)
Beyond Reductionsm (1969)
The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971)
The Call Girls (1972)
Lion and the Ostrich (1973)
The Heel of Achilles (1974)
Janus - A Summing Up (1978)
Stranger in the Square (1980)
Bricks to Babel (1980)
Non fiction
Spanish Testament (1937)
aka Dialogue with Death
The Scum of the Earth (1941)
The Yogi and the Commissar And Other Essays (1945)
The God That Failed (1949)
Insight and Outlook (1949)
Promise and Fulfilment (1949)
Arrow in the Blue (1952)
The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays (1955)
Reflections On Hanging (1956)
The Sleepwalkers (1959)
aka The Watershed
Suicide of a Nation? (1963)
The Act of Creation (1964)
The Ghost in the Machine (1967)
Drinkers of Infinity (1968)
The Roots of Coincidence (1972)
The Challenge of Change (1973)
The Thirteenth Tribe (1976)
Life After Death (1976)
aka Dialogue with Death
The Scum of the Earth (1941)
The Yogi and the Commissar And Other Essays (1945)
The God That Failed (1949)
Insight and Outlook (1949)
Promise and Fulfilment (1949)
Arrow in the Blue (1952)
The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays (1955)
Reflections On Hanging (1956)
The Sleepwalkers (1959)
aka The Watershed
Suicide of a Nation? (1963)
The Act of Creation (1964)
The Ghost in the Machine (1967)
Drinkers of Infinity (1968)
The Roots of Coincidence (1972)
The Challenge of Change (1973)
The Thirteenth Tribe (1976)
Life After Death (1976)
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